The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-06-09
SAM. JONES.
He Game Sure Enough to Pulaski in all
His Greatness.

lie Game Sure hn0ugh TO Pulaski In al
His Greatness.
The great, the inexplicable, tn
inimitable, the veritable Sam Jones
came right into Pulaski and actual
ly made speech. Many doubted
to the last that he would come
He was accompanied by DIR. Left
wich and covey of reporters, and
they were met at the depot in car.
riages and escorted direct to tie
court yard, where scaffold had
been erected in the south west cor
ner and an audience said TO be
1000 strong sat and stood and
leaned and squatted in restless
waiting. The reporters said it was
the finest audience he has had
Sam. Jones seemed to think so too
He was introduced felicitously by
Speaker Ewing and at once began
one of his inimitable discourses
He was at his best and he was just
getting into red-hot trim to make
the fur fly when the most unwel-
come, binding RAIN storm came and
washed the crowd away.
Many were the Sunday bonnets
and commencement frock spoiled
and bedrabbled.
Nothing daunted, the speaker
went into the county court room
where as many as could.get in heard
him to the finish.
The confusion and crowd render
ed ~ impossible to get his speech
in full.
SAM JONES SAID:
wish l had this great assembly
photographed that l might take it
home to show my children and tell
them here are the fathers and moth
ers of children in Tennessee assem-
bled to hear your father talk for So
briefly and for humanity, and
against evil, for women and for their
children. l shall never regret these
talks In this state, and in twenty
six other states of this great union.
| am a constitutional and concen-
trated prohibitionist. Now when
[ announce that fact it is some
that ought to be proud of. This
great question has become an is
sue in this state. What you see in
Giles county may be put down as
what you want.
You wanted Jail and you wanted
a courthouse and you have them.
You have a half dozen saloons
Interrupted by DR.. Duncan, who
said, ''There are but four and one
of them black" They are of your
choosing or they wouldn't be here.
We are here as the masters of vot-
ers; here to consider an issue al
ready sprung upon us.
You say we'll let you sell it if you
will pay US enough. The barkeeper
is as much the authorized officer of
the law as your sheriff or your tax
collector.
God has given you this most
beautiful country, and if you can't
make a living you had better surren
der. We can get along on our poor
hills down in Georgia without wills
XII. Here your beautiful meadows
are covered with Jersey cattle. II
| can tell the truth, and I think ]
can sometimes, you c2n do without
whisky.
Take poor widow who has moth
ing left but her orphans, put your
ear to her side and hear
THE BLOOD DRIP, DRIP, DRIP
from her broken heart and you will
conclude that it is more than a
question of money. 1t is a 1ues-
tion of blood, and of death and of
hell, and that is all you can make
out of it. Here's my vote against
whisky as long as I've got my
senses. Whisky won't hurt a man
that has no hains-it does have
tendency to preserve beef and pork.
Here's Teller who says | am So
Der, l don't want whisky but l am
not q prohibitionist. He don't
want to take sides but the liquor
men will get him. l came here to
speak to one class of people. Some
of you are prohibitionists and will
stay so, others are for whisky. L
can tell this by your nose. It's
those little fellows so hard to find
that | want TO reach, and to I'M
press upon them that they must
take sides. If they fan to vote
they are on the side ofewhisky.
In Georgia We'll put a druggist
in Jail just as quick for keeping a
bar in his store as we will the Eel
low whose barroom is on the cor
ner.
When fellows gets drunks he
will do anything the devil wants
to. 1t is the same old mean whis-
ky put into finer bottles.
A hard shower breaks up the
meeting, and after quite a while to
see if the clouds will clear away,
speaking was resumed in large
room of the court house.
Resuming his argument, Mr..
Jones said whisky has entrenched
itself in the government, in the
church and in our homes, and we
must fight him in national and
state legislatures. 1t possesses i'm
mense magnitude and power.
This fight is no child's play nor
fourth of July celebration. We
need courage, enthusiasm and I'M
dying devotion to the right. You
know we had $5,000.O0O of slaves.
They were our property and we
protested their abolition with our
money and with our blood. This is
a battle that involves our children.
| believe there IS a God. l have
surveyed the field. | have but one
answer now and will have but one
at the Judgment. I'd rather leave
my boy a wheel barrow and shovel
than the best farm in the country
and whisky. l would rather my
daughter would marry fellow with
just sense enough to plow straight
row than a gifted lawyer addicted
to liquor.
These little antl--prohibition
preachers! o, my brethren! l used
to run with the devil and his